Tiny Panda Quotes
Quotes by Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel, born on October 11, 1967, in Frankfurt, Germany, is a notable entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and influential tech innovator. As co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, Thiel has played a pivotal role in shaping Silicon Valley's landscape. An early investor in Facebook, his insights have transformed the realms of finance and technology. Beyond his business ventures, Thiel is a controversial thinker, often challenging conventional wisdom. His legacy encompasses both staggering success and provocative ideas, positioning him as a key figure in 21st-century entrepreneurship.
11 quotes found
"There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising."
Peter Thiel"People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why."
Peter Thiel"The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them."
Peter Thiel"It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work."
Peter Thiel"People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI."
Peter Thiel"Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human."
Peter Thiel
"Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon."
Peter Thiel
"It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death."
Peter Thiel